U.S. District Attorneys in Mississippi
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U.S. District Attorneys in Mississippi
U.S. District Attorneys for Mississippi, 1813-38(may beincomplete!)
ThomasAnderson 1813-14WilliamCrawford 1814-18BelaMetcalf 1818-22WilliamB. Griffith 1822-28FelixHouston 1828-30GeorgeAdams 1830-36RichardM. Gaines 1836-38
U.S. District Attorneys for Mississippi, 1838-1998(may beincomplete!)
SamuelF. Butterworth 1838-41OscarF. Bledsoe 1841-48AndrewK. Blythe 1848-50WoodsonI. Ligon 1850-53NathanielS. Price 1853-54JohnA. Orr 1854-57FlaviusJ. Lovejoy 1857G.Wiley Wells 1870ThomasWalton 1876-78GreenC. Chandler 1878-85CharlesB. Howry 1885-89HenryC. Niles 1889-91MackA. Montgomery 1891-93AndrewF. Fox 1893-96ChapmanL. Anderson 1896-97MackA. Montgomery 1897-1905W.D. Frazee 1905-12LesterG. Fant 1912-14WilsonS. Hill 1914-21J.L. Roberson 1921SamuelE. Oldham 1921-25JohnH. Cook 1925-29LesterG. Fant 1929-37GeorgeT. Mitchell 1937-42JamesO. Day 1942-45ChesterL. Summers 1945-51NoelH. Malone 1951-54ChesterL. Summers 1954ThomasR. Ethridge 1954-61B.Euple Dozzier 1961HoseaM. Ray 1961-81GlenH. Davidson 1981-85RobertQ. Whitwell 1985-93AlfredE. Moreton III 1993-97CalvinBuchanan 1997-98
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Attorneys for Mississippi, 1840-1998(may beincomplete!)
RichardM. Gaines 1840-50HoratioJ. Harris 1850-59CarnotPosey 1859-66RobertE. Leachman 1866-69G.Gordon Adam 1869-70E.Phillip Jacobson 1870-73FelixBranigan 1873-75WilliamE. Dedrick 1875-76LukeLea 1876-85J.Bowmar Harris 1885-88AndrewHouston Longino 1888-89AlbertM. Lea 1889-97RobertC. Lee 1897AlbertM. Lea 1897-1901RobertC. Lee 1903-15JosephGeorge 1915-19JulianP. Alexander 1919-21EdwardE. Hindman 1921-29BenF. Cameron 1929-33RobertM. Bourdeaux 1933-38ToxeyHall 1938-47JosephE. Brown 1947-54RobertE. Hauberg 1954-80GeorgeL. Phillips 1980-94BradPigott 1994-98
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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